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Quotes About Grudges

Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Dizem que a alma é somente aquilo que se faz, mas, se eu odeio alguém e cultivo esse rancor, ...isso significa que existe um dentro!
~ Umberto Eco
Her anger was a memory now. She didn't believe in bearing grudges. She believed in killing them where they lay.
~ Val McDermid
She didn't believe in bearing grudges. She believed in killing them where they lay.
~ Val McDermid
She collected grudges and heartaches the way she'd once collected Barbies, never sharing, never abandoning.
~ Kristin Hannah
Personal growth is all about reflecting and noticing the thoughts that simply don't serve my family or me. Past grudges, regrets, anger, resentment, fears, and other emotional baggage only hinder the happiness in my spirit and our home. In essence, it is a spring-cleaning of unhealthy attachments.
~ Kristine Carlson
No. I love my grudges. I tend to them like little pets. Madeline
~ Laine Moriarty
Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare.
~ Lance Morrow
It's difficult to move beyond nasty feelings if you keep reinventing new ones.
~ Catherine Garrett
Grudges, if left to fester, can become serious maladies. Like a painful ailment they can absorb all of our time & attention.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
If they will only hold their hands until the season is over, he promises them a royal carnival, when all grudges can he settled and the survivors may toss the non-survivors overboard and arrange a story as to how the missing men were lost at sea.
~ Jack London
'Bigg Boss' for me is a journey and when the journey is coming to an end you don't want to continue any negativity, grudges or burden with you.
~ Rubina Dilaik
Grudges are negative energy turned inward
~ Nora Roberts
At first, it didn't sound like Carney. But then, Big Mike had tended his crop of grudges like a farmer, inspecting the rows, taking care they got enough water and fertilizer so that they grew big and healthy.
~ Colson Whitehead
forgiving is not the same as forgetting.
~ Cecily von Ziegesar
People don't come with grudges and schemes of finishing their practice with live targets, I hope?" said my guardian, smiling. "Not much of that, sir, though that has happened. Mostly they come for skill—or idleness. Six of one, and half-a-
~ Charles Dickens
If a good person suffers, then the bad person should suffer even more: this is an idea that seems embedded in the human psyche. Consciously one denies it, of course, and proclaims piously, 'I'm not the sort of person who holds grudges.' Yet one unconsciously applauds when the villain 'gets what he deserves'. Wanting to punish a villain or seeing him punished is ubiquitous in literature, movies and politics.
~ Gurcharan Das
If you're angry at a loved one, hug them. And mean it. Cause at the end of the day, the only person you hurt when you stay angry or hold grudges is you.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it.
~ Hector Hugh Munro
I hold grudges, but I can't hate nobody; that's not my nature.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
The majority of people carry in their minds and in their hearts, grudges, jealousy, envy, antipathies, prejudices, which, although not very pronounced in their expression, are festering within and poisoning the inner life.
~ Orison Swett Marden
I've been at some pains to tell you about myself because among other reasons I think we should know who our enemies are. I've known people to spend their lives nursing a hatred of phantoms and they were not happy people.
~ Cormac McCarthy
if we walk far but are angry as we journey, we travel nowhere. If we hold grudges as we scale mountains, our view remains the same.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen